Scientists have suspected that modern humans have more genes to digest starch than our hunter-gatherer ancestors, but the amylase locus of the genome is hard to study. Researchers have now developed ...

Bronze Age natural selection accelerated human evolution, challenging long-held beliefs about genetic adaptation.

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

Robertsonian chromosomes (ROB) are a type of structurally variant chromosome that is created when two chromosomes fuse together to form an unusual bond. Found commonly in nature, these chromosomes are ...

A new study shows the virus could have doubled the frequency of genetic variants in a South African province if effective ...

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There is something almost comforting about the old, schoolbook version of human origins. It had a single ancestral population ...

Over the past 12,000 years, humans in Europe have dramatically increased their ability to digest carbohydrates, expanding the number of genes they have for enzymes that break down starch from an ...

When humans domesticated grains some 12,000 years ago, natural selection began to favor genomes with extra genes encoding for the enzyme amylase, which converts starch to sugar. These extra genes ...